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/^t/In my country there is no chance for a homosexual relationship to be legalised. Most often homosexual couples share the flat, which brings them a lot of problems. In the case of a regular heterosexual couple there is a certain set of rules which apply to most couples at the moment of their marriage. These rules concern the ownership of a house or flat belonging to the couple, the using of credit cards or bank accounts. In the case of married heterosexual couples all that the spouses own is common, provided there was no legal division of their belongings before or after the marriage. Homosexuals however have to fight for the application of these rules on the legal way, which is not easy. Another thing is that in the case of death of either partner of a heterosexual marriage all the property possessed by the dead partner almost automatically goes to the one still alive, on condition that there was no testament left by the dead husband or wife. Homosexual couples again meet with difficulty just because they are not allowed to marry. If we accept the fact that such couples do exist, why do we not allow them to marry? We agree that homosexual people are not either ill or in any way worse than heterosexual ones. We may admit that 'two husbands' or 'two wives' is a weird concept but still we have to enable these people to live as most people do. If we agree that they are normal people it more or less means that they deserve equal treatment and we should ensure them such.